It was more than $ 10 million dollars that the DEA took away thanks to the closings of businesses for the coronavirus
CJNG and the Sinaloa Cartel were hiding money in Los Angeles dens and DEA found them.
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The United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) for The Angels managed to hit the finances of the Sinaloa Cartel (CDS) and the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) thanks to the pandemic of coronavirus, COVID-19 which was a fundamental factor for it.
From March and until a few weeks ago, they managed to snatch from both criminal organizations a sum of $ 10 million dollars, reported Univisión Noticias.
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It was detailed that the emergency caused by the COVID-19 He put these criminal organizations in check, not only because millions of people remained in their homes, but also the closing of businesses, which are used by the Mexican drug cartels to launder money, which forced them to circulate with enormous sums of money within the territory of the United States.
According to the report in early April, the agents of the DEA They received the information that a large amount of cash would arrive in southern California. It was there that the DEA, intercepted two vehicles in whose trunks, they carried cardboard boxes where they had hidden $ 1.7 million dollars, although it was not detailed whether said money belonged to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel or to the Sinaloa Cartel.
While in the last days of April, elements of the DEA They intercepted a drug transaction in Riverside that allowed a total of $ 1 million in cash to be seized in addition to cocaine.
To these specific blows are added the amounts that have been taken by the US authorities within the hiding places of drug traffickers in California, because due to the closure of businesses they cannot launder money and have to have them in the places where they operate.
“That money generated by the sale of drugs had no destination to go to and began to accumulate very quickly. Only by doing our day-to-day work – wiretapping, using informants and doing undercover operations – we started to focus on large cash packages, ”he said. William Bodner, head of the DEA's Los Angeles office, to Univision News.
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